The naming of the intolerable is itself the hope

We live in times that are creeping dangerously towards the intolerable. Not merely ‘interesting’, as the Chinese saying has it.

My post’s title comes from a passage in John Berger’s and our faces, my heart, brief as…

Six books to help explain how we got here

Trump and his scary entourage may appear to be some sort of anomaly. They’re not. They…

The Tories are finally destroying the NHS; it’s time to get angry

Trump, May, Lysistrata, and a revitalised media

John Berger is dead

The new year is already continuing in the style of 2016. John Berger died yesterday — January 2nd — to add a cruel coda to…

Labour MP Tristram Hunt is to leave politics to fight for justice through decorative arts

When government holds the people in contempt

Since the time of Thatcher, Tory politicians — and the corporate gods they serve —…

The battle for democracy in the face of neoliberalism

In June 2012, Wolfgang Streeck — sociologist and Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies — delivered the Adorno Lectures at the Institut für Sozialforshcung. Those lectures have been gathered and expanded in the…

Theresa May finally clarifies her Brexit position